Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Lower Part of the Door of a Tomb

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Description

Sycomore wood, gesso

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A fragmented wall section with visible remnants of plaster.

The image depicts a large fragment of an ancient structure with multiple horizontal divisions, likely representing wall segments. The style includes traces of plaster, with some sections showing degradation. Its rectangular composition is incomplete, revealing the underlying construction materials.

decorative unknown fragmentary
Materials plaster

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Plaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116413493 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 23.3.174a tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544250 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.